The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-12
Young Republicans.

PHILADELPHIA, April 1.-THE sixth
annual banquetzof the Young Repub-
licans of Philadelphia was given at st.
Georges Hall, tonight, and was largely
attended. The following letter from
Senator John Sherman was read, and
its sentiments received with applause :
WASHINGTON. D. C April ssh; 1887.
EG,cdrd S. Stuart, Esq, President Young Re
publicanS, Philadelphia, Pa:
Ny Dear sir-while I am compelled to
deny myself the pleasure of dining with
the Young Republican Club of Phiia-
oelphie, on April 1lth. 1 take occa-
sion to express my high appreciation
of the value of their services to the cause of
good government, in which we all are or
of the Republican party, may be allowed
to give words of encouragement and advice
to the young men who. have assumed or will
soon assume, the control of our political
organization. We certainly should feel a
pride in the. great measures that have been
successfully executed by the Republican
party, and although you may not have to
conduct a gigantic war for the preservation
of the Union, will probably have
no such difficult tasks as recon
work of the Republican party is but fairly
begun That which is past is honorable;
that which is to come will depend chiefly
upon the vIgor, integrity and patriotism OF
young Republicans who, like yourselves,
are now organized to continue the work Of
the past. What you have to do is still
further to develop and diversity American
industries 1t should be our aim to produce
everything in this country for which
the God of nature has given US
our soil and climate. Every measure
should be supported that will tend to fos-
ter, defend and protect home industries.
We should not be content until every chan
ment, and which yields benefits equal TO
their cost, shall be improved. The educa-
ton of the rising generation, without res.
pect to race, color, or previous condition,
ought to be the constant object of DESIRE
The equal enjoyment of every political
right given by the constitution should be Sc
cured by every legal and constitutional
means. Shadows and prejudlces OF the past
should be lifted by the lights OF
modern civilization. The workingmen in
should be encouraged, protected and es
sisted by every reasonable means to ad
vance his condition, and to open up to him.,
bv honest labor and enterprise, all the
avenues of'wealth and honors. Our ad-
versaries may brood over the dead past
and mourn the decay OF Confederate ideas,
but the Republic ans hail with unbounded
satisfaction, the every advance OF our
country in strength aud power at home and
abroad. Conscious that this is consistent
with the full powers of State, county and
local governments, reaching to every
family and homestead in the sland,
with q sincere hope that your society and
kindred societies throughout the United
States may take up the work of the Repub-
llcan party, and carry it to its logical re-
suits, am as ever,
Very truly yours,
JOHN SHERMAN.
Ex-Governor John s. Wise, of Viz
ginis, was the guest of the evening. In
responding to toast, he made yigor-
Gus attack on the Democratic party.
In overhauling its record, he said
the Democratic party had failed
to carry out its pledges to re-
peal the internal revenue laws:
had defeated the Blair educational bill
after pledging itself to its passage, and
had won power by its assault on the
surplus, yet had piled up larger!
surplus than ever. 1t had passed the
law of interstate commerce, which was
so bad that its own commission iSforced
to suspend its operation to avoid panic,
and a business stampede. The Repub-
lican party, if it should win, he said,
must cease stalking its all on New York.
Indiana no more has Hendricks and
Mcdonald to lead-the one is dead, the
other snubbed; West Virginia is Repub-
lican; Tennessee and North Carolina
are ready to come. Let US devote one
tenth of the energy and means on them
that has gone to New York in the past,
and victory is ours.